Re: [Qemu-devel] Joystick, gameport, midi, PC speaker and better sound cards support

[malc]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 address@hidden wrote:

> malc wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > http://www.synchrondata.com/pheaven/www/area25.htm
> > > http://www.synchrondata.com/pheaven2/www/area28.htm
> > > these two pages had some links to a lot of dos sound code
> > > some of it could probably be used to improve the sb16-compatible emulated
> > > card (which works fine except for missing pnp and not understanding some
> > > operations dos games used to use to auto-detect the card)
> > > the code contained there is supposed to have moved to
> > > http://www.programmersheaven.com/
> >
> >
> > What games exactly?
>
> in windows the sound does work fine
> it worked on the first tried after I manually set the irq from 7 to 5 , same 
> thing with both windows 98 and windows 2000
> I could probably get sound for some of these games running them in windows 
> 2000 with VDMsound
>
> so far I have tried
>
> aces of the pacific
>
> when you run the setup you have each choice and the auto-detected ones have a 
> check mark next to them
> only the pc speaker has one (but there's no sound coming out)

Sound works just fine.

> when the setup program launch , qemu complain about the 0xe0,1 not being 
> understood yet
> (4 times and there are 4 support sound card types
> Roland MT-32 MT-100 LAPC-I CM-32L or CM-64
> SoundBlaster / AdLib Card (or compatibles)
> Tandy 3 voice
> IBM PS/1 Audio/Joystick Card)
>
> my guess is that this 0xe0,1 command is pretty important if all these card 
> types can be detected and distinguished with it
> maybe other commands are run after it but this install program just gives up 
> after this first command
>
> this game also uses the joystick
> (I have 624k conventional memory so the program run fine and at exactly the 
> right speed (as opposed to plain dos on this same machine , too fast))
>
> blake stone (based on wolfenstein 3d, wolf3d has excellent autodetection 
> capabilities , this is my experience with it in the past on very varied 
> machines)
>
> this game comes with a SETBLAST.EXE program that is used to set the BLAST 
> variable that a lot of games use to set the io/irq/dma
> this program also include autodetection but is does not trigger any "command 
> not understood" message , also the program claims there is no card on 220/5/1
>
> black stone itself has an in-game menu for setting the sound , starting the 
> game does not trigger any "command not understood" message , but the game
> doesn't give any other choice than the pc speaker

I couldn't find this one on abandonware sites.

> Alone in the dark
> when launching this game you always start in the configuration menu then the 
> game itself
> when I try to configure , first it ask for the FM music card typebut all the 
> choices are "grayed out"
> you press any key and it ask for the sound effect card type and only the pc 
> speaker is available
> does not trigger "command not understood" message

Sound selection(and sound as such) works just fine.

> X-Wing (original version not the CD version)
> the installer does not have any restriction on the card type and doesn't 
> appear to have card type detection routines
> you just choose the card type and launch the game
> unfortunately there is no sound , also no "command not understood" message
> there is probably some auto-detection routine running at game launch however

Havent found it.

> I have no mouth and I must scream
> I have never played that game , ever
> when I start it the windows enlarge too 1280x1024 and fill with some garbage 
> , but it's mostly white , in the garbage I can barely make some full motion 
> video being repeated a few times
> there are no sound nor any "command not understood" message , this game is 
> not playable (the only one so far)
>
> that's the games I had in my dos image
>
> I have a lot more of them in my collection , I just need to copy them to my 
> harddrive then I can give you a more detailed report
>
> also I suppose there is some special console I could use to monitor the 
> auto-detection routines , maybe that could be helpful
>
> if there is any specific test you want me to perform just ask , I'll post 
> again later with more reports

Rules for sound to work in dos:
configure with -enable-adlib (without this FM will not be available)
run with -enable-audio
have SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 T6 in autoexec.bat

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